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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Battle of the Historians
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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The End of the World?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Yves Tanguy: 6 Facts About the Outstanding Surrealist
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
2 months ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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